Late-life depression is associated with an increased risk of multimorbidity and polypharmacy
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a Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen , The Netherlands, b Department of General Practice , University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen , The Netherlands, c Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ Healthcare, Nijmegen , The Netherlands, d NIVEL, Netherlands Institute of Health Services Research , Utrecht , The Netherlands, e Department of General Practice and Elderly care medicine/EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam, The Netherlands and f Department of Pharmacy, Unit of PharmacoTherapy, Epidemiology and Economics, University of Groningen , Groningen , The Netherlands
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